Nick v. State Highway Commission’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2021
19 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Martin v. Creasy · State v. Thelberg · State ex rel. Carter v. Harper · Carazalla v. State · Stock v. Cox
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“DOT held a public hearing on the matter on May 4, 2002, at the Milford Town Hall in Jefferson County after giving notice by three separate publications in two separate Jefferson County newspapers. It found that the potential traffic on STH 19 exceeded 2,000 vehicles per day and that it was necessary in the interest of public safety, convenience, and the general welfare to designate STH 19”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““An impairment of the use of property by the exercise of police power, where the property itself is not taken by the state, does not entitle the owner of such property to a right to compensation. The law on this subject remains as we stated it in State ex rel. Carter v. Harper (1923), 182 Wis. 148, 153 , 196 N. W. 451 ,—a zoning case, “ ‘. . . incidental damage to property resulting from governmental activities, or laws passed in the promotion of the public welfare, is not considered a taking of the property for which compensation must be made/ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The situation regarding the question of damages [for diminution of value of the property due to a loss of direct access to a controlled-access highway] was frozen when the commission declared highway 30 a controlled-access highway.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.